St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-19
The Utter Failure of His
Scheme To Boom Himself
Into Office.
Evidence That Craftsmanship
and Journalism Will Not
Mix Well Together.
The Funny "Piekle" Of Pierce,
Gen. Tyner and the Pho
neer Press.
Commissioner Mcclure Do
ing Good Work in the In
terest Of Immigration.

Prom the Globes Special Staff Contributor.
WATERFOWL. Nov. III would like
to ask Gov. Pierce what he has so far
accomplished with his Dakota edition
of the Pioneer Press. know what, to
start with, he intended to accOmp-
lish. He thought paper, with the old
time influence of the Pioneer Press,
would be good thing to boom him pO
litically and, forsoOth, land him in con-
gress: but this is quite another and
different thing from the question, what
has he accomplished? | know one thing
especially that he has accompliShed-he
has given the people of this great terri
tory a chance to get acquainted with
him as he could have done in no other
way. While Gov. Pierce has used the
Pioneer Press as means not only of
defending himself personally, but of
booming himself, more than ever has
been illustrated the fact that a news
paper man cannot be anything but a
newspaper man; he cannot be gov
ernOr, with an administration to defend
or compare with other administrations.
He must be newspaper man, purely and
simply. Here is where Pierce has made
part of his miStake-in trying to be an
editor and statesman at the same
time. 1t won't work. His position
with the president and the peculiar
position that he has taken on all issues,
has been the means of drawing out
good many facts about the way things
have been run in this territory, that
would have remained in the dark under
any ordinary circumstances. Gov. Pierce
had a way with him that was popular.
Everything and everybody was
SmoOthed over. Taffy was diShed out
in liberal doses. 1t was Pierce's de
light, while he held his office of COVER
ITO, whOmsOever possible, make ashow
of himself. He likes to go off on junk
citing tours in state, with his special
cars. And he never failed to make
good impression. when it was possible
and it is seldom impossible under such
as these. So that Pierce,
as policy" governor, was quite sue
cess and quite popular with a large
class of people; and, so much did he
have it impressed upon him, with his
ways-holding an Office
under Democratic administration
that everybody was his friend.
that he thought that, by taking hold of
the editing ofthis St.Paul paper h ewoud
be able to so raise himself in the esteem
of the people that he would be
almost. il not quite, worshiped as a
wonderful sort of a deity. How far all
these calculations have fallen short
none can imagine better than Pierce
himself. When he comes to sum up
what he has accomplished, by and with
his Pioneer Press, he will only find
more reasons than ever why he should
be sick of his job. His work has moth
ing to recommend it, and, if we are not
if will not be long before his
health will require another trip to the
East. or else he will be requested to ''gO
West and grow up with the country"
WILL PIERCE BE BOUNCED?
There may be some truth in the re-
ports that have lately been waited to
my ears that complaints are rolling in
to the Pioneer Press management to-
have a change in the conduct of its Da-
kota edition. l learn that Editor
Wheelock objects to its policy for his
section of the country, on the grounds
that Pierce is making it too much of
personal organ, and, being in harmony
with North Dakota, boOmS men and
doctrines contrary to the interests of
South Dakota. For instance, Pierce's
Pioneer Press leans too much toward
.'admiSsion as a whole" to suit the Re-
publicans. Then the idea that the men
of the North must be kept before the
public, to the exclusion of the men of
the South, does not suit them very well.
Then there is Editor Bowen, of the
Yankton Press and DakOtian, who
thinks that Pierce stands up for the
enemies of his (Bowen's) 'pet boOdlers'
too much. Even the Sioux Falls Press
finds fault that Pierce'S Pioneer Press
is too narrow in its scope, and that there
are some things to be considered besides
what Pierce likes and what he doesn't
like. This is remarkable, coming as it
does from this source. 1t will be
different when ''Cal'' gets back
from compiling the laws and goes to
s'editing" himself. Then it can be ex-
pected that Pierce cannot prepare one
of his purgative pellets strong enough
to make Cal" grippe in swallowing it
all down. 'CaF' knows under what OBJ
legations he is to Pierce, and Pierce ap-
preciateS the service that he can exact
from ''Cal." But what have outlined
above shows the tendency of public
opinion, and it may become strong
enough before very long to demand the
withdrawal of Pierce. The Pioneer
Press probably loves Pierce good deal,
but there is limit, where and when
they will have to let him ''gO." That
limit will be the demands of their bust
ness and standing IN Dakota. give
these prophecies. if they may be called
such. to justify what has been SAID III
these columns about the Dakota editor
of the Pioneer press who once-we are
not proud to own twas governor of
this territory,
THAT TYNER BREAK.
Rut there are a few other men in the
territory that are quite as dead, as con-
Germs their chance of getting into con-
gress. as Gov. Pierce. Last weeks Pr
Oneer Press contains facetiOuS article,
signed by y. w. Tyner, that pretendS
to give partial list of the candidates
for congress. Whether the article was
written by Gov. Pierce or not, it had his
Endorsement before it was published in
the Pioneer Press, and he is responsible
for it. The whole strain of the article
is that any man whom Gov. Church has,
in any way, sat down on is candidate
for congress. So far does this writer carry
this ridiculous proposition of his tina the
has the president of the Yankt0n Doodle
board, William Powers, as the most
prominent candidate-and for the single
reason that, under Gov. Church's adj
miniStratiOn, he has been shown to be
boodler-which this writer CONSTITUTES to
mean that Gov. Church has descended
so low as to make per-
sonal fight Oh this Powers.
1t is on this line of argument that all
his candidates are brought forth. Their
principal qualification is that they have
opposed Gov. Church. But he only
reaches the sublimely ridiculous when
Powers is named as the candidate for
congress. What sort of fight would the
with ex-Boodler Powers at the head of
their ticket? That dear old party of re-
form would make a brilliant record, and
no mistake about it. Let few more
candidates like Powers be named, by
all means!
But now the question that goes thun-
dering all over Dakota is, who wrote